-=> Quoting Peter Lane-collett to Mark Griffiths <=-

 PL> Mark, at 12:25 on Thu, Nov 21 1996, you wrote to Russell Brooks ...
 
 MG> hasn't enabled Caller ID yet :-(.  Also, I believe there is a maximum 
 MG> setting for S0 is 5...
 
 MG> In the case of the Courier, you can have it set to S0=2 and the modem will
 MG> still answer after only 1 ring since it detects the Australian ring as two
 MG> rings...  Hmm - I wonder which ring pattern our "normal"
ring will be 
 MG> detected as when we finally get distinctive ring in an Aussie SDL?

 PL> I do not think so. I tried a courier and had it set to 
 PL> answer after the second ring. It worked fine because the 
 PL> mailer actually causes the modem to answer not the modem 
 PL> itself. When testing I found that each "pair" of rings 
 PL> (ring-ring) is only detected as one ring. So ring-ring ring-
 PL> ring is detected and reported as being 2 rings.

All I can say is that in my case each ring-ring is reported as 2 rings.
Just watching the terminal screen shows:-

RING
(short pause)
RING
(long pause)
RING
(short pause)
RING
(long pause)
etc

Each ring comes up with each ring of the phone.  I can think of 3 
possibilites why this isn't the case for you.  One possibility is that
you are on a different type of exchange which produces a different ring
pattern, although this doesn't seem likely from your explanation.  Another
is that you were using a Courier other than the V.everything or otherwise
the Courier may have had a different SDL loaded...  In this case it doesn't
make any difference whether it is the modem or the software which is 
actually being set to answer, except that the software can be set to answer
after only 1 ring which the modem cannot.

 PL> It is actually the phone devices that generates the ring 
 PL> pattern you hear. That's why you have to use certain types 
 PL> of phone with "multiple number" (distinctive ring) to hear 
 PL> the different ring tones.

On the contrary, most phones ring with the pattern sent from the exchange.
The only types of phones that I can think of that don't and consequently
aren't compatible with distinctive ring are those that regenerate the ring
signal such as cordless phones or novelty phones which play a tune or strange 
sound instead of ringing.  PABXs are another example of systems that 
regenerate the ring signal...  If you were to probe the phone line with
a voltmeter or CRO, you would see the line voltage rise and fall with the
phone ringing.

Regards,
Mark Griffiths.

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